2026年10月19日 美国东部时间下午3:12 / 福克斯新闻频道
电影制片人伊莱·斯蒂尔称，非裔美国人历史文化博物馆拒绝了他的展映申请，却定期放映《第13修正案》等进步主义电影
作者：罗伯特·施马德，福克斯新闻
一名电影制片人质疑，史密森尼学会旗下的非裔美国人历史博物馆为何迟迟不放映他这部质疑进步主义种族与种族身份观点的纪录片。
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【福克斯新闻独家报道】 一名黑人保守派电影制片人正质问史密森尼学会，为何他这部质疑进步主义种族观点的纪录片始终无法在该馆进行公映——而该博物馆此前曾展映过探讨系统性种族主义的影片。
伊莱·斯蒂尔执导并联合制作的《白人负罪感》改编自他父亲、知名黑人保守派学者谢尔比·斯蒂尔的同名著作。身为黑人、犹太裔且听力受损的小斯蒂尔结合自身经历，对当下主流的种族与身份观点发起挑战。
这部纪录片认为，美国种族历史遗留的白人负罪感，以及害怕被贴上种族主义者标签的心态，已迫使各机构将种族身份置于个人价值之上。
此次争议发生之际，史密森尼学会正面临唐纳德·特朗普总统及其政府的越来越大的压力，后者指控该学会在展现美国历史时存在意识形态偏见。白宫指责该机构宣扬进步主义叙事，并威胁削减联邦资助，这加剧了一场关于国家博物馆应展现哪些视角的广泛争论。
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位于华盛顿特区的史密森尼国家非裔美国人历史文化博物馆此前曾主办过探讨种族与美国历史的纪录片公映活动。（阿尔·德拉戈/盖蒂图片社）
斯蒂尔向福克斯新闻数字频道提供的通讯记录显示，该博物馆拒绝了他提议的展映日期，转而向他提供了私人租场放映的选项。这名电影制片人表示，博物馆尚未回应他更换公映日期的请求。
“这部电影制作专业，质量过硬。他们此前放映过的类似影片是《第13修正案》，而那本身就是一部极具争议的电影，”斯蒂尔告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。“所以我们最大的疑问是：这里到底有没有观点多样性？史密森尼博物馆要放映的黑人电影，是不是得符合某种标准？”
“这是我们必须正视的核心问题，但我希望这并非出于这类原因，”他补充道。
这名电影制片人质疑博物馆不放映他的电影这一明显决定，尽管他并未指控博物馆存在意识形态歧视，但他指出，该博物馆曾多次为其他持更进步主义立场的电影提供公映机会。
斯蒂尔提到的《第13修正案》是国家非裔美国人历史文化博物馆教育与公共项目中的展映影片。该片声称，美国宪法第13修正案中允许对犯罪者实施强迫劳动的条款，通过将黑人行为刑事化，使得奴隶制结束后种族控制得以延续。
国家非裔美国人历史文化博物馆公映过的其他影片包括2016年的《隐藏人物》、2017年的《我不是你的 Negro》，以及2023年与史密森尼民俗节合作推出的《信仰黑人：非裔拉丁裔灵性探索》。
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北美价值观研究所敦促史密森尼国家非裔美国人历史文化博物馆退出一场教育研讨会，原因是该研讨会的一位主讲嘉宾颇具争议。（安德鲁·利希滕斯坦/考比斯/盖蒂图片社）
尽管斯蒂尔不愿猜测自己的影片未能排定公映的原因，但其他黑人保守派人士认为，博物馆对他的申请的处理方式是一种常见模式。
“学术界已不再是我读研究生时的样子了，那时它自诩是思想的市场，”退休的黑人保守派教授、知名媒体评论员卡罗尔·斯韦恩告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。“那时总会有象征性的保守派声音。但多年来我发现，保守派的容忍度越来越低。如果他们还是黑人，那么最终会完全不被容忍。”
“像史密森尼这样本应属于我们所有人、属于所有美国人的机构，你会认为它应该接纳不同观点，”曾在普林斯顿大学和范德堡大学任教的斯韦恩补充道。“但我们看到的并非如此。”
《华尔街日报》专栏作家、曼哈顿研究所高级研究员杰森·莱利也持类似观点。
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对特朗普而言，围绕史密森尼的斗争是他推动更具爱国主义色彩的美国历史叙事的更广泛努力的一部分，这一叙事适用于所有联邦资助的文化机构。（凯文·迪特/盖蒂图片社）
“我认为执掌史密森尼学会的人，是美国更广泛的自由派知识分子群体的一部分，这一群体在学术界和媒体中占据主导地位。他们不会接受这种观点，”莱利告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。“事实上，这部电影直接抨击了这群人。所以这可能涉及到自身利益。这可能戳到了这些人的痛处。”
“我确实认为，他们有既得利益去宣扬某种叙事以推进政治议程。我认为这才是史密森尼这类场所真正发生的事情，”莱利补充道，他提到自己作为一名黑人评论员，职业生涯中一直在与白人自由派辩论。
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电影制片人伊莱·斯蒂尔执导了《白人负罪感》，这部纪录片基于他父亲谢尔比·斯蒂尔的研究，探讨种族、身份以及白人负罪感在美国社会中的作用。（福克斯新闻数字频道）
莱利和斯韦恩都认为，放映这部电影可以帮助白人进步主义者挑战他们的种族假设，迫使他们审视自己偏好的政策是否真的有利于美国黑人。莱利表示，经常参观国家非裔美国人历史文化博物馆的美国黑人也能从斯蒂尔的电影中获益，因为该片挑战了“黑人因种族原因无法实现社会流动”这一流行假设。
近几个月来，史密森尼学会一直遭到共和党民选官员的批评，包括总统本人，他们指责该机构允许政治偏见掩盖了历史的中立呈现。该组织内部一些人士对此予以反驳，称他们只是在展现美国故事的正反两面。为施压史密森尼学会纠正其所谓的意识形态偏见，特朗普政府威胁要削减联邦资助，包括可自由支配的拨款和联邦机构的合作。
据福克斯新闻数字频道查看的通讯记录显示，莱利和斯韦恩对史密森尼学会的动机提出了质疑，但博物馆告诉斯蒂尔，他提议的日期无法安排，并未解释是否会考虑更换日期以进行公映。
根据通讯记录，斯蒂尔和他的团队在8月底联系史密森尼学会申请公映影片，当天就收到回复，要求他们填写活动申请表。9月初，他们提交了完整的申请表，并提供了两个可能的放映日期。
据通讯记录显示，约两周后，国家非裔美国人历史文化博物馆回复称，这两个日期都无法安排公映。在斯蒂尔的团队询问是否有其他替代日期后，博物馆向他们提供了私人租场放映的选项，报价为3.5万美元，而非安排博物馆赞助的公映活动。
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史密森尼学会秘书朗尼·邦奇在一场活动中发言，2026年2月20日，华盛顿特区。特朗普夫人将她的第二任就职礼服捐赠给该博物馆，礼服由设计师埃尔韦·皮埃尔设计，他也曾设计她的第一任就职礼服。（盖蒂图片社）
据福克斯新闻数字频道查看的通讯记录显示，当斯蒂尔和他的团队明确表示他们希望进行公映，并表示可以灵活调整日期后，博物馆没有给出任何回复。
“回复邮件并不需要花多少时间，”斯蒂尔告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
“我昨晚看了这部电影。它制作精良，有力展现了谢尔比·斯蒂尔过去40年来一直提出的观点，”布朗大学非裔美国人教授格伦·劳里告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，他自称“倾向保守派”。“这些观点——关于种族身份如何与西方对‘黑人权力’的追求和‘白人无罪’的探索相互作用——通过影片对多个典型案例的探索得到了生动阐释。”
“影片中斯蒂尔雄辩的旁白所提出的论点并非无可指摘，但它们 invariably provocative and insightful，”他继续说道。“在史密森尼国家非裔美国人历史文化博物馆的平台上放映这部纪录片，无疑是恰当的，这可以激发来自所有政治/意识形态阵营的观众对其主题进行批判性讨论。”
组图：史密森尼博物馆充斥着种族与性别相关的觉醒政治信息
美国国家历史博物馆“娱乐国度”展览入口处播放的视频中，出现了衣着暴露的女性和来自女权主义惊悚片《使女的故事》的片段。（福克斯新闻数字频道）
国家非裔美国人历史文化博物馆未回应福克斯新闻数字频道的置评请求。
“我的父亲谢尔比·斯蒂尔出生在种族隔离时代，数十年来一直在研究美国如何变化、我们取得了多大进步，以及仍是什么分裂着我们，”斯蒂尔在给福克斯新闻数字频道的一份声明中说道。“《白人负罪感》改编自他2006年的著作，将他的研究搬上了银幕。我们联系了史密森尼的非裔美国人博物馆，因为我们认为这场讨论应该在那里进行。在一座致力于纪念他所经历的历史的博物馆中分享他毕生的工作，对我们父子俩都意义重大。”
“我们的提案仍然有效，我们期待得到答复。”
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Smithsonian screening dispute puts museum’s commitment to diverse views on trial: ‘Right kind of Black?’
October 19, 2026 3:12pm EDT / Fox News
Filmmaker Eli Steele says NMAAHC has rebuffed his request while regularly screening progressive films like ’13th’
By Robert Schmad, Fox News
A filmmaker is questioning why the Smithsonian’s African American history museum has yet to screen his documentary challenging progressive views on race and racial identity.
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FIRST ON FOX — A Black conservative filmmaker is challenging the Smithsonian to explain why his documentary questioning progressive views on race has yet to secure a public screening at its African American history museum, which has previously showcased films examining systemic racism.
“White Guilt,” directed and co-produced by Eli Steele, is based on a book by his father, noted Black conservative academic Shelby Steele. The younger Steele, who is Black, Jewish and deaf, has drawn on his own experiences to challenge prevailing views on race and identity.
The documentary argues that White guilt over America’s racial history, along with fears of being labeled racist, has pushed institutions to prioritize racial identity over individual merit.
The dispute comes as the Smithsonian faces mounting pressure from President Donald Trump and his administration over allegations of ideological bias in its portrayal of American history. The White House has accused the institution of promoting progressive narratives and threatened to restrict federal support, escalating a broader battle over whose perspectives are represented in the nation’s museums.
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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., has previously hosted public screenings of documentaries exploring race and American history.(Al Drago/Getty Images)
Steele provided communications to Fox News Digital showing that the museum declined his proposed screening dates and offered him a private rental option instead. The filmmaker says the museum has yet to respond to his request for alternative dates for a public screening.
“The film is professionally shot, the quality is there. A comparable film that they’ve shown is ’13th,’ which itself is a very controversial film,” Steele told Fox News Digital. “So that’s the big question we have here: Do we have viewpoint diversity or do we not? Do you have to be the right kind of Black to be shown at the Smithsonian?”
“That’s the big question that we have to address in this room. But I hope that it’s not about any of that,” he continued.
The filmmaker has questioned the apparent decision to not screen his film, given that the museum has allowed numerous other films with more progressive messages to have public screenings, though stopped short of accusing the museum of ideological discrimination.
“13th,” the film mentioned by Steele, is featured in educational and public programming at the NMAAHC. It argues that the 13th Amendment’s exception permitting forced labor as punishment for a crime enabled racial control to persist after slavery by allegedly criminalizing Black behavior.
Other films shown by the NMAAHC in public screenings include such titles as “Hidden Figures” in 2016, “I Am Not Your Negro” in 2017 and “Faith in Blackness: An Exploration of AfroLatine Spirituality” in 2023, the latter presented in partnership with the Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
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The North American Values Institute is urging the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture to back out of an education retreat over a controversial workshop leader.(Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
While Steele was hesitant to speculate as to why his film hadn’t been scheduled for a public screening, other Black conservatives saw the museum’s handling of his request as part of a familiar pattern.
“Academia is not what it was years ago when I went to graduate school, when it touted itself as a marketplace for ideas,” Carol Swain, a retired Black conservative professor and prominent media commentator, told Fox News Digital. “There would always be a token conservative included. And I have found over the years that conservatives were tolerated less and less. And if they were black, at some point they were not tolerated at all.”
“When you look at an institution like the Smithsonian, that’s supposed to belong to all of us, to all Americans, you would think that it would be open to divergent views,” Swain, who spent her career at institutions such as Princeton and Vanderbilt, continued. “That is not what we find.”
Wall Street Journal columnist and Manhattan Institute senior fellow Jason Riley shared a similar perspective.
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For Trump, the battle over the Smithsonian is part of a broader push to restore what he calls a more patriotic telling of American history across federally funded cultural institutions.(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
“I think the type of people who run the Smithsonian Institute are part of the broader liberal intelligentsia in this country that prevails in academia, prevails and the media. And this is not a point of view. That they take kindness to,” Riley told Fox News Digital. “In fact, this film takes some rather direct shots at that group of people. So there might be some self-interest here. It might cut a little too close to these folks.”
“I do think that they have a vested interest in putting forward a narrative out there to advance a political agenda. And I think that’s what’s really going on here at places like the Smithsonian,” Riley continued, citing his experience as a Black commentator who has spent his career sparring with White liberals.
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Filmmaker Eli Steele directed “White Guilt,” a documentary based on his father Shelby Steele’s work examining race, identity and the role of White guilt in American society.(Fox News Digital)
Both Riley and Swain argued that viewing the film could do a service to White progressives by challenging their assumptions about race and forcing them to confront whether their preferred policies are actually helping Black America. Riley stated that the Black Americans who regularly attend the NMAAHC could benefit from Steele’s film as it challenges the popular assumption that they are blocked from social mobility by virtue of their race.
In recent months, the Smithsonian has been the target of criticism from Republican elected officials, including the president, who argue that the institution has allowed political bias to overshadow the neutral presentation of history, an argument some within the organization reject, claiming that they are simply presenting the good and the bad aspects of the American story. As part of its effort to pressure the Smithsonian over what it describes as ideological bias, the Trump administration has threatened to restrict federal support, including discretionary grants and cooperation from federal agencies.
While Riley and Swain raised questions about the Smithsonian’s motives, the museum told Steele that his proposed dates were unavailable but did not explain whether it would consider alternative dates for a public screening, according to correspondence reviewed by Fox News Digital.
Steele and his team reached out to the Smithsonian in late August about a public screening of their film, receiving a response within the day directing them to fill out an event application form, according to correspondence reviewed by Fox News Digital.In early September, they submitted a completed application form and provided two possible dates for a screening.
About two weeks later, the NMAAHC responded by informing them that neither date was available for a public screening, according to the correspondence. After Steele’s team asked about alternatives, the museum offered them the option of renting space for a private screening at a quoted cost of $35,000, according to correspondence reviewed by Fox News Digital, rather than arranging a museum-sponsored public screening.
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Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Lonnie Bunch listens during an event at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History on Feb. 20, 2026, in Washington, D.C. Mrs. Trump donated her second inaugural dress to the museum, which was designed by fashion designer Herve Pierre, who also designed her first inauguration dress.(Getty Images)
When Steele and his team clarified that they wanted a public screening and signaled flexibility on their requested dates, they received no response from the museum, per correspondence reviewed by Fox News Digital.
“Answering email does not take that much time,” Steele told Fox News Digital.
“I watched the film last night. It’s a well-made and powerful representation of ideas that Shelby Steele has been developing over the last 40 years,” Glenn Loury, an African American professor at Brown University who has described himself as “conservative-leaning,” told Fox News Digital. “Those ideas — about how racial identity interacts with the pursuit of ‘black power’ and the quest for ‘white innocence’ in the West — are vividly illuminated through the film’s exploration of a number of exemplary cases.”
“The arguments advanced via Steele’s eloquent narration in the film are not beyond questioning, but they are invariably provocative and insightful,” he continued. “It would certainly be an appropriate use of the platform of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture to screen this documentary, as a means of provoking critical engagement with its themes from all corners of the political/ideological spectrum.”
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A video playing at the entrance of the National Museum of American History’s Entertainment Nation exhibit features scantily clad women and a clip from the feminist thriller The Handmaid’s Tale.(Fox News Digital)
NMAAHC did not respond to a request for comment when reached by Fox News Digital.
“My father, Shelby Steele, was born into segregation and has spent decades examining how America has changed, how far we have come, and what still divides us. ‘White Guilt,’ drawing on his 2006 book, brings that work to the screen,” Steele said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital. “We approached the Smithsonian’s African American museum because we believe that conversation belongs there. Sharing his life’s work in a museum dedicated to the history he lived would mean a great deal to both of us.”
“Our proposal remains open, and we would appreciate an answer.”
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